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| PM attacks Jaswant Singh on 'mole' issue | | |
New Delhi, Aug 1 : Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh today had a torrid time in the Rajya Sabha when he was intensely questioned by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his party members who demanded that he name the mole in the PMO, who had allegedly leaked nuclear secrets to the US in the mid nineties, which he failed to do. At the end of a three-hour discussion, the former External Affairs Minister, who had referred to the mole in the PMO during the late P V Narasimha Rao's regime in his just-released book "A Call to Honour", did not not come out with any name but went into various other details which the Congress members refused to listen to.
"Who is the mole and why are you shying away from that," the Prime Minister asked Jaswant Singh pointedly during a discussion on a notice given by Congress member V Narayanasamy that was marked by noisy exchanges between the two sides leading to two brief adjournments.
"Your are levelling serious charges we were being snooped, we are being snooped, even the present PMO has a mole. If you have any evidence, you should name that person. If you do not not name, let the country draw its own conclusion," the Prime Minister said signing off his brief intervention that brought the BJP members on their feet.
After the Prime Minister's brief response, Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat took up the next listed business sparking off noisy protests from BJP members, forcing adjournment of the House for 20 minutes.
Later outside the House, Manmohan Singh attacked Jaswant Singh saying his statement on the mole issue showed how low the top BJP leadership could "stoop" to. |
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